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The AI BriefUpdated November 3, 2026
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ChatGPT Classic for Mac retires Jan 30, and Chat and Work merge into one window
OpenAI is now showing a banner in the original Mac app saying it will shut down on January 30, 2027, with full chat history carrying over to the new ChatGPT app.
Put it to work. If you still use the old Mac app, install the new one this month and confirm your history carried over, so the January cutoff is a non-event and you can try the reasoning-effort setting the old app never got.
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Anthropic releases FlashProve, open-source proofs that an answer came from the model you were promised
Today you cannot verify that a response came from the model a provider names rather than a cheaper one swapped in by a router.
Put it to work. When you buy AI through a reseller or router for anything audited, such as compliance or financial analysis, add a contract line asking which exact model serves each request and how they will prove it. That is the question this research is built to answer.
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OpenAI plans another security sprint with outside researchers and more than quadruples bug bounty midpoints
OpenAI is partnering with Cathedral so outside researchers can use its models alongside its engineers to attack its own defenses, following a sprint where a quarter of product engineers hunted...
Put it to work. Borrow the sprint idea for your own code or small business: block one afternoon, point an AI coding tool at your public-facing pieces with the prompt 'find ways to break this and reproduce each one,' and fix what it proves.
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